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    Prediction of cystine connectivity using SVM
    Rama, JGL ; Shilton, AP ; Parker, MM ; Palaniswami, M (BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, 2005)
    One of the major contributors to protein structures is the formation of disulphide bonds between selected pairs of cysteines at oxidized state. Prediction of such disulphide bridges from sequence is challenging given that the possible combination of cysteine pairs as the number of cysteines increases in a protein. Here, we describe a SVM (support vector machine) model for the prediction of cystine connectivity in a protein sequence with and without a priori knowledge on their bonding state. We make use of a new encoding scheme based on physico-chemical properties and statistical features (probability of occurrence of each amino acid residue in different secondary structure states along with PSI-blast profiles). We evaluate our method in SPX (an extended dataset of SP39 (swiss-prot 39) and SP41 (swiss-prot 41) with known disulphide information from PDB) dataset and compare our results with the recursive neural network model described for the same dataset.
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    PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES AND A NEW FEATURE REPRESENTATION
    Gubbi, J ; Lai, DTH ; Palaniswami, M ; Parker, M (WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, 2006-12)
    Knowledge of the secondary structure and solvent accessibility of a protein plays a vital role in the prediction of fold, and eventually the tertiary structure of the protein. A challenging issue of predicting protein secondary structure from sequence alone is addressed. Support vector machines (SVM) are employed for the classification and the SVM outputs are converted to posterior probabilities for multi-class classification. The effect of using Chou–Fasman parameters and physico-chemical parameters along with evolutionary information in the form of position specific scoring matrix (PSSM) is analyzed. These proposed methods are tested on the RS126 and CB513 datasets. A new dataset is curated (PSS504) using recent release of CATH. On the CB513 dataset, sevenfold cross-validation accuracy of 77.9% was obtained using the proposed encoding method. A new method of calculating the reliability index based on the number of votes and the Support Vector Machine decision value is also proposed. A blind test on the EVA dataset gives an average Q3accuracy of 74.5% and ranks in top five protein structure prediction methods. Supplementary material including datasets are available on .